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Great Mountain Forest Orchard
Tuesday May 30th, Volunteers from the CT Chapter of TACF, students from Housatonic Valley Regional High School, and employees of Great Mountain Forest Corporation descended on a site on Undermountain Road in Falls Village to plant our long planned northwest CT...
Spring has sprung in Woodbridge
By Phil Arnold and Leila Pinchot The Woodbridge chestnut orchard has had a very productive spring, with the April 21st planting, and the second annual visit by local elementary students. The planting, carried out by Orchard Manager Dr. Phil Arnold, along with CT-TACF...
Tour of Sleeping Giant Chestnut Plantation
Join the Connecticut Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation and Dr. Sandy Anagnostakis, of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, for a tour of the Sleeping Giant Chestnut Plantation, followed by a tour of CT-TACF?s Woodbridge chestnut breeding orchard....
New Director Joins CT-TACF
Will Kies of Greenwich is joining the Board of the Connecticut Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation. Will is the Director of Education at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center and believes strongly on the importance of teaching environmental stewardship and...
Northeast Utilities Saves Chestnut and Paper!
Last September Northeast Utilities (NU) pledged their support to The American Chestnut Foundation through a creative matching grant program tied to shareholder acceptance of a paper reduction program. Northeast Utilities System recently initiated a program in which...
Swann Farm Chestnut Orchard
Article by James Gage On two beautiful Saturdays in April (April 21 and 28) a total of 20 enthusiastic volunteers met at the Northern Connecticut Land Trust's Swann Farm in Ellington, CT. This hardworking group prepared and planted 233 chestnuts and erected 1,100...
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Have a great photo of an American chestnut tree, bloom, bur, leaf, restoration planting, volunteer event, or wildlife interaction? We'd love to see it! (Photo pictured taken by 2025 2rd place winner Eric Sizemore)
First Place receives:
- Their photo featured on the cover of a future issue of Chestnut magazine
- A one-year TACF Seed Level Membership (a $300 value!)
- TACF merchandise
Second and Third Place winners will receive:
- TACF swag
- Recognition alongside the first-place winner in the 2027 Spring/Summer issue of Chestnut.
Submit your entries by December 31, 2026.
Visit the following link for more information and complete submission details: tacf.org/2026-photo-contest/
#AmericanChestnut #PhotoContest #TACF #ChestnutMagazine #ConservationPhotography #ForestRestoration #NaturePhotography
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Josh Roudebush win it all bro I might know a few big boys for the shot
A bee enjoying a well deserved break after the chestnut pollination period. The tree it rests on is a hybrid castanea pumila x alabamensis (dwarf chestnut x Alabama chinquapin).
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Voles got my chestnut, planted spring 2025
August Events! Double check with your states Chapter about events in your area.
Visit the following link for more information on the events: tacf.org/events/category/tacf/
#americanchestnut #Connecticut #NorthCarolina #SouthCarolina #getinvolved
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In a recent article for The Conversation, Dr. Steve Strauss discusses how advances in genomics and biotechnology are creating new opportunities to support chestnut restoration.
We're pleased to see perspectives from a longtime TACF collaborator. Steve served on our Science Advisory Review Committee in 2018 and currently has a pending proposal with TACF to improve genetic transformation methods for chestnut.
Give the article a read and let us know what part of chestnut restoration you're most excited about: theconversation.com/new-genetic-approaches-raise-hopes-for-restoring-the-american-chestnut-to-its...
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Somewhere, waiting discovery deep inside the remote part of a forest towers a thriving blight resistant nut filled American Chestnut (surrounded by dead ones just so we know it was exposed and surviving). We can hope. Taking inspiration from the Dogwood saga.
Professors at S.U.N.Y E.S.F put a wheat gene in to Chestnuts years ago and have growing them
I thought the blight only killed the tree above the ground and not the root system that's why the chestnut resprouts and grows until it gets a scar on it and the blight kills the sprouted tree back down to the ground leaving more viable root system to sprout again in the future.
Unlike most forest trees that rely mostly on wind, American chestnuts recruit insects too.
#americanchestnut #EnvironmentalEducation #pollinator #nativetrees #dronefootage
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Okay, who was in our Monocacy Orchard. MDTACF.